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I have been reading a lot of mixed reviews and opinions regarding Ingrid Bergman oscar-winning performance in "Anastasia". What is your perspective, Nathaniel? Is hers an exquisite, artistic expression or an overacted embodying of a character? That very year, 1956, Deborah Kerr lost for "The King and I" and many legendary performances were not even nominated, such as Marilyn Monroe in "Bus Stop", Audrey Hepburn in "War and Peace", Dorothy McGuire in "Friendly Persuasion", Elizabeth Taylor in "Giant" and Grace Kelly in both "High Society" and "The Swan".

it has been so long since i've seen any of those movies I wouldn't dare say. The most recent one I saw was Bus Stop like 10 years ago (which... i thought Monroe was great in it) so perhaps I shall have to add this to the wishlist of things to eventually write about

I'm not a big fan of Monroe's acting abilities. She was a great star - probably the best there ever was. Maybe it's me - but I thought she was pretty awful in "Bus Stop." Terrible overwrought accent, etc. In terms of potential oscar nominations - the two possibilities / she possibly deserved nominations were: "Seven Year Itch" & "Some Like it Hot."

Thank you all! My favourite Marilyn's performances should be the ones in "The Prince and the Showgirl", "Some Like It Hot" and "The Misfits". She was simply magical in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" as well. Anyway, she created a lot of love in a very natural way, which made her all the most magnetic. In other words, she had a lot of beauty not only in the outside, which was/is/will always be obvious, but also in the inside, which endows her with a far more powerful weapon than all the talent in the whole wide world.